Interview with Chuck Aubrey, Vice President of Lean Six Sigma, Anderson Packaging
Chuck Aubrey, Vice President of Lean Six Sigma at Anderson Packaging recently joined the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI) at our Lean Six Sigma Excellence Summit. There he delivered one of our keynote address Keynote Address: Working through a Lean Six Sigma Deployment for Maximum Results in Service and Transactional Environments. ASMI recently spoke with Chuck about his experiences with Lean Six Sigma. READ MORE
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Kaizen – Continuous Incremental Improvements
Kaizen is a daily activity that is used to create continuous incremental improvements. The Kaizen process relies on a series of continual small improvements that create a greater impact on an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness. The methodology makes small changes continuously, monitors the results and then adjusts accordingly. READ MORE
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Lean Six Sigma Enhances Healthcare Performance in Women’s Diagnostic Imaging
An interview with Dr. Ed Popovich, a leader in business transformation and organizational performance enhancement, including the deployment and application of Lean Six Sigma. Ed discusses his healthcare Lean Six Sigma experience with the American Strategic Management Institute. READ MORE
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Interview with Kent Sterett, Lean Six Sigma Leader
Kent is a Senior Fellow with The American Strategic Management Institute. Kent has years of experience consulting and training in corporate performance, quality improvement, Six Sigma, Lean, and Strategic Planning. Kent has worked with such organizations as Motorola, Allied Signal, ABB, York, General Electric, ASQ, ING, the Singapore Government, and PwC. Kent’s past continuous improvement projects include Manufacturing, Service, Healthcare, Financial services, and Government organizations. READ MORE
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Lean Six Sigma and Human Capital Management
Peter Carlivati, Ph.D, Director of Educational Relations and Quality Standards, American Bankers Association (ABA), brought his expertise to American Strategic Management Institute’s 2007 Lean Six Sigma Excellence Summit to deliver an address on Lean Six Sigma and Human Capital – “The Impact of Human Capital Management on Lean Six Sigma Deployment: Some Considerations."
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Here’s the Deal – Lean Six Sigma and Behavior
Aubrey Daniels, Ph.D, founder and chairman of Aubrey Daniels International (ADI), brought his expertise to American Strategic Management Institute’s 2007 Lean Six Sigma Excellence Summit to deliver the keynote address on Lean Six Sigma and behavior – “A Process Without Behavior, Is No Process At All.” Dr. Daniels works with organizations on behavioral science to optimize performance and achieve lasting results. His straight forward talking of, “here’s the deal,” captivated the audience and brought insight into the importance of understanding workforce behavior when implementing new process improvement initiatives.
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Using the Balanced Scorecard to Build An Office of
Strategy Management
During the month of June, ASMI hosted their 2007 National Summit on the Balanced Scorecard at their training center in Arlington. One of the Keynote speakers, Ron Miller of American Red Cross, spoke on the benefits of creating a strategic management office and how such an office improves the overall performance of an organization’s strategic formulation, execution, alignment and communication.
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Marketing Function Is Different in a Six Sigma World
Six Sigma is changing the way the marketing function in an organization operates today. Consider the following marketing scenario at a company which manufactures consumer-packaged goods: During an emergency marketing meeting, the market research division discloses that its Brand X, which has recently lost market share, is rated a poor value by consumers in the targeted market. The challenge from the marketing manager is to identify a solution that will reposition the brand. The assistant manager provides a prototypical marketing solution. First, cut the price of the product. Then, develop an advertising program to convince consumers that the product really does provide the quality and benefits they seek. The new advertising campaign, coupled with the reduced price, will substantially enhance the perceived value of the brand in the marketplace.
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Using DFSS to Improve Offshore Outsourcing Efficiency
During the last several years, there has been a tremendous amount of discussion relating to the offshore outsourcing of software development work to achieve significant cost reductions. This has been an emerging trend for about a dozen years, but one that has been recently accelerated and subject to wild variations in success and efficiency. A Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) approach is one way that software organizations can make better decisions about how, when and how much to deploy offshore.
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Six Sigma in Sight
“Six Sigma is a quality improvement process starting with the voice of the customer and using data and statistics to solve customer problems,” says Lori S. Miller, HR generalist at
DuPont headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Six Sigma is organized around individual projects with finite timelines, each project beginning by forming a team to identify the customer and the customer’s needs. The team measures how those needs are being met, analyzes the variables that affect customer satisfaction, improves the process, and, finally, locks in improvements to control the process—all part of the Six Sigma methodology to define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC). To read more, go to
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What Past Delegates Are Saying:
“As my organization is undergoing a transition and culture change now, many of the tools and insights will help identify opportunities, remove waste and improve eff ectiveness”
Paul Laird, U.S. Navy
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